Tympanic temperature measurements: Are they reliable in the critically ill? A clinical study of measures of agreement

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-164

  Moran, John L ^a   Peter, John Victor ^a   Solomon, Patricia J ^b   Grealy, Bernadette ^a   Smith, Tania ^a   Ashforth, Wendy ^a   Wake, Megan ^a   Peake, Sandra L ^a   Peisach, Aaron R ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concordance; Core temperature; Critically ill; Ear based thermometry; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Linear mixed model

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIALYSIS; EAR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; ARTERIES; AXILLA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; THERMOGRAPHY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; URINE;

EID: 33845937103     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000250318.31453.CB     Document Type: Article

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